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Direct linkDe La Paz, Susan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Seventy 8th-grade students (including talented writers, those with average ability, and students in need of special education services) participated in an integrated social studies and language arts unit designed to promote historical understandings and argumentative writing skills. The historical reasoning instruction lasted 12 days, and the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Grade 8, Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction
